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Governance, risk and compliance aren't just for big business, and they're not just a burden of red tape. The better the governance, risk and compliance policies of a company, the better it does at business. This guidance from the IT Policy Compliance Group is specifically written for small business; take a look to see what you should be recommending strategically. http://www.itpolicycompliance.com/guidance/smb_special_interests/ read more
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Do you get your cut from the cloud?
Cloud computing stands to be the most significant transformation for the IT industry in a generation. Analysts predict that within a few years, almost all companies will run at least some of their IT in the cloud; a minority will run all their computing that way.read more -
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Buying Laptops for Small Business
The lowest price isn’t always the best value; paying a little extra for a notebook that’s designed for business could be a better deal.read more
Recovering and protecting data on Mac and Linux desktops
Make sure all of your clients’ computers have a backup plan, whatever operating system they run.
Business Intelligence for Small Businesses with SQL Server
In these times of economic uncertainty, it is vital for your customers to understand how their business is performing. Are they losing customers? If so which ones, and are they gaining others? What do the new customers buy?
Planning an Upgrade with MAP Toolkit 4.0
Keeping up with technology changes is a challenge for both consultants and their customers. Server virtualization is now fully integrated into Microsoft’s platform, with the advent of Hyper-V in Server 2008.Hosting Remote Applications over the Internet with Terminal Services
Giving small business users the applications they want, available everywhere? It’s actually easier than you think. With the release of Windows Server 2008, the venerable Terminal Services gains a host of new capabilities.
Partner Focus: D-Link
IT Expert spoke to Andrew Mulholland, marketing manager at D-LINK, the networking equipment vendor, and asked this channel-focused company how it is winning business from the big names, and how it is boosting its channel programmes.
Support in the cloud
Skip the traffic and use cloud services to proactively support clients without leaving your office.
Get better security with Vista by implementing best practices for using User Account Control - UAC
Operating your PC when you’re logged in with an Administrator account is an inherently insecure thing to do. If you’re a user with highly-elevated privileges across multiple machines or an entire Active Directory domain, running your everyday processing with these privileges can be dangerous to the point of negligence.
Protecting Networks
Security is changing: smart clients and remote working mean that the security perimeter is getting closer to the server. How will you protect your clients’ networks tomorrow?
Macs in a Windows world
Helping your Apple users become full-time network citizens – without doing a lot of extra work
We IT professionals are seeing more and more Apple Mac computers on our comfortably Windows-based networks. In the past, it’s been easy to ignore them – after all, in many cases they belonged to just one or two users, none of whom tended to be an influential manager or executive. But today it’s just as likely to be the boss with a new Mac.
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